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The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte Brontë completed, and is based on her experiences as a language student in Brussels in 1842. Told from the point of view of William Crimsworth, the only male narrator that she used, the work questioned many of the presuppositions of Victorian society.
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"An exhilarating new book from Australia's most acclaimed writer Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved literary novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Prize and the winner of a record four Miles Franklin Awards for Best Australian Novel, he has a gift for language virtually unrivaled among English-language novelists. His work is both tough and tender, primordial and new--always revealing the raw, instinctual drives that lure us...
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The novel's protagonist, a down-on-his luck young man, sets out to destroy a successful older writer's career by devising and unleashing a diabolical scheme to ruin his reputation. The scheme turns on switching DNA samples so that the teenager's claim to be the writer's daughter is believed. What ensues is a descent into psychological nightmare for the writer, who actually believes he has made love to his daughter. As readers, we know that she is...
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In this witty, compelling and genre-bending novel, a single mother navigates the loves, lusts and losses of middle age to arrive at a final, bittersweet contentment. "Ellen in Pieces" explores love in its varied forms, the nature of regret (and the possibility of recovery from it), and that greatest human test, morality.
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A blackly comic and heart-rending odyssey by the inimitable author of Down to the Dirt
Scrappy tough guy and three-time loser Johnny Keough is going a little stir-crazy awaiting trial for an alleged assault charge involving his girlfriend, Madonna, and a teapot. Facing three to five years in a maximum-security prison, Johnny knows this might just be the end of the road. But when Madonna doesn't show up for court due to a fatal accident, shell-shocked...
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Domenic Marino has become an expert at code-switching between the hypermasculine and ultrafeminine worlds of his two soon-to-be-wed best friends. But this summer-- reeling from his own failed engagement and tasked with attending their bachelor and bachelorette parties--he's anxious over having to play both sides. The pressure is on. The bride wants Dom to keep things clean. The groom wants Dom to "let loose" with the guys. And Dom just wants to get...
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Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching on to something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. Casey's fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink.
10) Starclimber
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the award-winning aerial adventure that started it all Winner of the Governor General's Award, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book, and recipient of many other national and international honours, Airborn fired the imaginations of readers around the world when it was first published in 2004 and its popularity has never waned. Airborn was followed by the acclaimed sequels Skybreaker, winner of the Red Maple Award and the...
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Disconnection has become an epidemic, and it may require a revolutionary effort to get us back together-a reconnection revolution.
Staying connected in this human race is the most direct route to happiness. But never have we been more disconnected. A call to simply connect isn't enough any longer. Connection is what we're wired for, and it can be easy: waving at your neighbour, going on that second date, buying coffee for the person behind you. The...
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A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply and dangerously in love at boarding school in nineteenth century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder
Finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
National Bestseller
Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal,
...14) Soot: a novel
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The year is 1909. It has been ten years since Thomas Argyle, Charlie Cooper, and Livia Naylor set off a revolution by releasing Smoke upon the world. Erasmus Renfrew, the avowed enemy of Smoke, is now Lord Protector of what remains of the English state. All these people seek to discover the true nature of Smoke and thereby control its power. As their destinies entwine, a cataclysmic confrontation looms. The Smoke will either bind them together or...
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1960. The world is dancing on the edge of revolution, and nowhere more so than on the Greek island of Hydra, where Leonard Cohen and a circle of poets, painters and musicians live tangled lives, ruled by the writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, troubled king and queen of bohemia. Forming within this circle is a triangle: its points the magnetic, destructive writer Axel Jensen, his dazzling wife Marianne Ihlen, and the young Canadian poet, Leonard...
16) Smoke: a novel
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Taking place in England a century ago, here the sinful are marked by Smoke, a sign of their fallen state. Three friends are about to discover that everything they've been taught about Smoke is a lie. And so, their adventure begins. This is the world of Smoke, a narrative tour de force, a tale of Dickensian intricacy and ferocious imaginative power, richly atmospheric, and intensely suspenseful. Dan Vyleta's most recent novel "The Crooked Maid" was...
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